Mole lives underground, but she wishes she could catch the sky and bring the sun’s warmth and light and the cool breeze into her home. Her friends, Squirrel, Bird, and Frog, try to help by grabbing a handful of sky–as a special gift for Mole. Down, down, down they go into the darkness.

When they learn that their friend Mole is trying to bring some of the sky back to her underground home, Squirrel, Frog, and Bird all find a way to help.

Mole thinks the moon is the most beautiful thing he's ever seen, so he sets about retrieving it, but bringing down the moon is not as easy as he thinks! Walker Books have collaborated with King Rollo Films to create this animated DVD packaged with the picture book.

Sky wants to fly. The only trouble is, she's a mole. Despite the other moles telling her to keep her feet on the ground, Sky sets off to make friends with the birds. But birds don't seem to like moles. Then one night, Sky dreams of a very special bird indeed...

Every evening, Mole comes out of his burrow to watch the twinkling stars in the sky above. How he wishes he could have them for his very own! Then one night he sees a shooting star and suddenly his wish comes true. There's just one problem: now that Mole's burrow is full of beautiful, shining stars, none of the other animals can enjoy them.

In her second book Wider Than the Sky, Nancy Chen Long grapples with the porous and slippery nature of memory and mind. Through form and content, the poems in the book mimic memory, its recursive and sometimes surreal qualities—how recalling one memory resurrects a different memory, which then jumps to another memory, and then another, each memory connected by the thinnest of wisps—as well as memory’s mutability—conflicting memories among family members, changes in the collective memory of a society, a buried memory that is resurrected when one catches the scent of a forgotten perfume. Wider Than the Sky explores the role of memory in identity, how the physical aspects of the brain impact who we are, and how who we are—both individually and as a society—is, in one sense, a narrative. These poems delve into the mind’s need for narrative in order to make sense of the world and how a society uses stories and myth to help its members remember a lesson, a preferred behavior, or their position in the social scale.